Twenty years ago, James Prosek--then a junior at Yale University--published his first book, Trout: An Illustrated History, and became an immediate star. He attracted a legion of literary and heralded admirers, like Tom Brokaw, Howell Raines, George H.W. Bush and Jann Wenner. His teacher and mentor, the literary critic and Yale professor, Harold Bloom, wrote: "Prosek is a writer at once artful and natural, an original in literature even as he is in painting." Many of us in the literary, naturalis...
Twenty years ago, James Prosek--then a junior at Yale University--published his first book, Trout: An Illustrated History, and became an immediate star. He attracted a legion of literary and heralded admirers, like Tom Brokaw, Howell Raines, George H.W. Bush and Jann Wenner. His teacher and mentor, the literary critic and Yale professor, Harold Bloom, wrote: "Prosek is a writer at once artful and natural, an original in literature even as he is in painting." Many of us in the literary, naturalis...
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